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Nelsont
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If you run the code below a drop down box comes up with date of 1996/01/01 as first date and 1997/12/01 as last date . Running this directly from the fex and not putting it on a HTML page can you change the sort of the where so the first date is 1997/12/01 and the last date is 1996/01/01?

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM
DOLLARS
BY DATE
WHERE DATE EQ &SEL_DATE.(FIND DATE,DATE IN ggsales).Select Date.;
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
END

I was thinking of changing the where to something like
WHERE DATE EQ &SEL_DATE.(FIND HIGHEST DATE,DATE IN ggsales).Select Date.;

That did not work.

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BabakNYC
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I think the syntax is SORT=DESCENDING, something like this:

  
WHERE ORDERS.ORDERS.ORDERDATE EQ DT(&ORDERDATE.(FIND ORDERS.ORDERS.ORDERDATE IN IBISAMP/ORDERS |FORMAT=HYYMDs,SORT=DESCENDING,REQUIRED=TRUE).Order date:.QUOTEDSTRING);


In my example ORDER DATE is HYYMDs


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Hallway
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Check out the docs: Adding a Dynamic Multiselect List of Values in Descending Sort Order


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That worked perfectly for what I was doing as the table I'm using only has current date back.

What if your dates go from 1/1/2003 to 12/31/2034. Can you set this to current date just running the fex not putting it on an html page.

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FP Mod Chuck
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Nelson

The calendar control has a check box in the settings to use current date.


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Hallway
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Originally posted by Nelsont:
That worked perfectly for what I was doing as the table I'm using only has current date back.

What if your dates go from 1/1/2003 to 12/31/2034. Can you set this to current date just running the fex not putting it on an html page.


Not in an auto-prompt scenario. At least not that I know of.

If you're using dates, why not use the datepicker? 
  
WHERE DATE EQ &SEL_DATE.(|FORMAT=YYMD).Select Date.;


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